The two were convicted of espionage and accused of spying along the Iran-Iraq border when they were captured in 2009. Another companion, Sarah Shourd was let go in September 2010 after she posted $500,000 bail.

A DNA sample from a dead suspect matches evidence collected from the 1993 case.

Nicholas Randolph Stofer was always a focus but investigators did not have enough evidence to file charges and his DNA had not previously been matched to the evidence, Kevin writes. Stofer died of a drug overdose in 2001.

Alie was five years old when she was kidnapped outside her family’s Englewood apartment on May 18, 1993.

Stofer had lived in the same apartment complex and moved out the day Alie’s body was found in a duffel bag.